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...started a few years ago when Japan’s Ministry of Health began drumming up awareness of “metabolic syndrome”—a collection of factors linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Since introducing this syndrome—the symptoms of which include obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol—the Japanese government has successfully convinced its citizenry of the urgency of this epidemic. “Metabo” is the new hip word for obesity. In April of this year, the Ministry...
...food.If this is true, what does it really mean to be a supertaster? The health consequences of a supertaster’s diet are complicated. On the one hand, a supertaster is less likely to reach for fatty foods, leading to lower levels of cholesterol and lower rates of cardiovascular disease. But their disinclination to reach for leafy greens limits their consumption of valuable cancer-fighting phyto-chemicals. In fact, supertasting abilities may be a relic from our evolutionary past, protecting our ancestors from eating poisonous alkaloid-containing plants. This theory is supported by the fact that most women...
...study’s participants submitted responses to detailed questionnaires about lifestyle and health conditions every two years, beginning in 1980. In a follow-up, 8,882 deaths were recorded—1,790 of which were caused by cardiovascular disease and 4,527 by cancer...
...sugar-free Red Bull increased the “stickiness” of a drinker’s blood, causing a higher risk of blood clots, which can be a precursor to life-threatening strokes, according to a study released last month by the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia...
Compared with the quarter of the surveyed population (aged 18 to 74) with the lowest levels of BPA, the quarter who had the highest levels were more than twice as likely to report having cardiovascular disease or diabetes. But the study's authors take pains to point out that their research does not prove that BPA can cause these ills, but merely indicates that these disorders seem to occur more often in people with higher levels of the disease. To prove a cause-effect relation would require longitudinal studies that compare the effects of BPA in one group...